Hero of the Week – Horia Cretan

NY Post
October 1, 2009

A Good Samaritan, shown on video dramatically rescuing a child from a Bronx fire, has moved on to another great moment in his life — proposing to his girlfriend on live TV.

Horia Cretan got down on one knee on ABC’s “Good Morning America” today, and told the woman, identified only as Desiree, there’s “never going to be a dull moment.”

She said, “Yes!” — and Cretan slipped a ring on her finger.

Moments earlier, Cretan recalled being in his store on Wednesday and hearing “desperate screams.”

He rushed outside, saw “waves of smoke” billowing from a fourth-floor window and used a ladder to get to the fire escape.

A firefighter handed him a limp, unconscious 4-year-old. Using a curtain as a shield from falling debris, Cretan carried the boy to safety.

“I broke the windows … the old man came out… he told me a boy was inside,” Cretan told WNYW-TV/Fox 5.

Cretan tried CPR on the boy.

“The little [CPR] I knew … when he opened his eyes it was a beautiful morning… I can’t wait to see him.”

The child is expected to survive.

Source NY Post

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